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-by the community. It is great or
small as population is thin or dense.
It is the result of civilization and co
operation by the people occupying
! the land, and justice demands the
! . giving of this value to the people
! who produce it Taking the prpduce
of labor from the producer is rdbbery
'by jaw or force without law. CMli
zation enables the producer to pro
W ilnrfi mnre wealth than he can uro-
duce without it. "This excess now
goes to the landowner mainly. It
belongs to the public and should be
applied to public purposes and all
other sources of public revenue
abandoned.
It takes imagination to realize this.
Minds occupied by sex and other in
significant and trivial matters can
not understand the deeper anh
weightier things that claim atten
tion. George V. Wells.
THE COLD STORAGE AND EGG
PRICES. The cold storage h as-become
one of the greatestjjenefactors
of the public today, which enables
them to have the necessities of life
' at a nominal cost the year around.
' The cold storage business has be
come one of Chicago's greatest en
terprises. This year three new
houses were added to the already
'large list, with two more under way
of construction.
These cold storages are public
warehouses and come under the su
pervision of the public utilities com
mission, and are filled withvgoods
owned by private firms and, indi
viduals, and not with merchandise
of the cold storage companies.
In order that their owners might
firrthese houses to obtain a revenue
nn fnnital invested, thev solicit busi-
4$ ne'ss throughout the entire country
tne same as any omer uusmeas unn.v
Chicago being the great central mar
ket, the greatest distributing point,
and having the greatest storage f aHl-
ities, merchants from all parts of the
country made use of these advan
tages and stored their ggs "here.
While it is $rue there were more
eggs stored here this year, a fact no
merchant seeks to deny, it is also
true as shown by the United States
government warehouse report that
there are 918,000 case3 or 330,480,
000 eggs short in storages through
out the country as compared with
last year.
Numerous large elevators for the
storing of wheat also exist in Chi
cago, yet I have heard of no incident
where the health commissioner has
invaded these storages, or elevators,
and tagged up thousands of bushels
of wheat to.be held until the price has
been lowered, as they have with
eggs; neither have they tied up mu
nition stocks that they might not be
sold until the price has been lowered;
yet there is no boycottxin either.
During the storing months, which
are April and May, as the production
is the largest and the quality the
finest, eggs are put in cold 'storages
for winter use. This year the con
sumption of eggs was so great, and
the, nroduction but normal, there
were a great many eggs less to be
put.in -storage throughout the coun
try, and at the end of May there was
already a shortage noticed for our
winter supply, as government reports
also show.
Then the two months of extremely
hot weather which followed deterio
rated the crop then produced about
one-third and the quality of the so
called fresh eggs was not very desir
able and would not fill the demand
for fine eggs. Thus in order to obtain
fine eggs the merchants were com
pelled to withdraw their April eggs as
early as July. With an increase in
consumption and a decrease in the
production as the season advanced,
there was a further shortage, which .
the government reports also show.
JThe fall production was not large
enough to supply the immediate de
mand and the merchants had to con
tinue to use their storage eggs. Later
on a large demand for export and
Canadian use sprang up, as well as